Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature Book

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Moving Encounter in Antebellum Literature 1

1 The Evolution of Moving Encounters in Lydia Maria Child's American Indian Writings, 1824-1870 15

2 Doomed Sympathy and The Prairie: Rereading Natty Bumppo as a Sentimental Intermediary 36

3 "Be man!": Emasculating Sympathy and the Southern Patriarchal Response in the Fiction of William Gilmore Simms 51

4 Containing Native Feeling: Sentiment in the Autobiographies of William Apess, Mary Jemison, and Black Hawk 70

5 The Book, the Poet, the Indian: Transcendental Intermediaries in Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes and Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods 93

6 "Sorrows in excess!": The Limits of Sympathy in the Ethnography of George Catlin, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 115

7 Restoring the Noahic Family: The Three Races of America in Mary Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin and Mary Howard Schoolcraft's The Black Gauntlet 151

8 Staging Encounters and Reclaiming Sympathy through Indian Melodramas and Parodies, 1821-1855 170

Conclusion: Moving beyond Sentiment or Cynicism 193

Notes 199

Index 245